Some of the earliest writings to which we have access introduce myth a human child raised by wolves. Enkidu is “wild” friend Gilgamesh in eponymous Sumerian epic; Romulus and Remus Rome are infants who suckle from she-wolf Lupa; Mowgli's story has been told ever since he was conceived Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book. While this wolf might seem imagine friendly way living with other-than-human b...

A reliable and highly scalable Internet of Things (IoT) end-to-end data infrastructure has been developed for environmental radiation monitoring at the European Organization Nuclear Research (CERN) based on a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN). The proposed system, called Waste MONitoring (W-MON), consists an interconnected thousands sensitive ultralow-power gamma sensors acting as long range ...

295 Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Quality Measures/Downloads/NationalImpact AssessmentofQualityMeasuresFINAL.pdf). 2. Martin AB, Lassman D, Washington B, Catlin A. Growth In US health spending remained slow in 2010; health share of gross domestic product was unchanged from 2009. Health Aff (Millwood) 2012;31:208-19. 3. Jha AK, Joynt KE, Orav EJ, Epstein AM. The long-term effect of Premier pay ...

The moth-inspired plume-tracing strategies on a single REMUS underwater vehicle successfully tracked a Rhodamine dye plume over 100 m and declared its source location in near-shore ocean environments that are characterized by turbulence, tides, and waves. This paper expands moth-inspired plume tracing via a single vehicle to multiple vehicles. The new strategy includes a mechanism determining a...

A new conformal array designed to enhance acoustic communication on small unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) is presented. The array is intended to improve the reliability and rate of acoustic communication to UUVs under conditions of multipath, multiuser interference, broadband or narrowband jamming and low signal-to-noise ratio. The array elements are constructed from a piezocomposite materi...

(ABSTRACT) High availability is a critical feature of data centers, cloud, and cluster computing environments. Replication is a classical approach to increase service availability by providing redundancy. However , traditional replication methods are increasingly unattractive for deployment due to several limitations such as application-level non-transparency, non-isolation of applications (cau...